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@angr3819

11 ай бұрын

You have a very good, clear voice for narration. Not too fast nor too slow in speaking. I don't listen to this channel often enough but that is about to change. I wonder if you own the books your narratives come from? Perhaps antiquarian books?

@tholmanalik8356

10 ай бұрын

😊A N.

@FOWST

10 ай бұрын

Video should be called Top 5 best flat earth proofs. Missed an opportunity here.

@SpinningBacKflst

9 ай бұрын

Let's N0T & Say We DID! ! ! !

@GenericYoutubeGuy

7 ай бұрын

Have any idea what the headless men with one eye in their chests could possibly be?

Fun fact about the giant ant thing: there are parts of northern India where local tribes have, for centuries, collected gold dust from the sand left in piles by a species of burrowing marmot that digs in places where the ground happens to be gold-rich. Supposedly, the word in ancient Persian for "ant" sounds very similar to the word for "marmot", so the whole giant ant thing might be a true story mixed up by a simple mistranslation.

@planecosy6384

11 ай бұрын

Ahh fascinating, thanks for this

@BarondePencier

11 ай бұрын

@@planecosy6384 It's the classic kind of "Herodotus Makes an Oopsie" that Herodotus totally admitted he did all the time, which was record stuff exactly as he heard it for lack of ways to verify it.

@cal2127

11 ай бұрын

the winged snakes he speaks of in arabia might be cobras

@nicksmith8293

11 ай бұрын

@@cal2127he actually mentions seeing their bones in Egypt. Probably some fossil bed with pterosaurs/birds

@iratepirate3896

11 ай бұрын

​@@BarondePencierThis is why Herodotus is my favourite historian, much better imo than Thucydides, because he repeatedly clarifies that this only what he has heard. Thucydides just states a lot of points while never expressing any doubt about its veracity.

Imagine you walk east one day and you’ve got a fox sized ant bringing you a hunk of gold for free.

@sr-kt9ml

11 ай бұрын

I wonder if he saw a camel spider

@Healermain15

11 ай бұрын

At which point you should be very polite to random kindly old ladies because you are now in a fable of some kind and will get karmically smited if you don't heed their warnings.

@toenailandthebedsores6682

11 ай бұрын

​@@Healermain15"You should have tipped the ant!"

@iceYoni

11 ай бұрын

That's when you know you've been inhaling earth's gases in a cave for too long 😂

@MrMomo182

11 ай бұрын

Ants = marmots. A mistranslation.

Hanno the navigator: "this island was full of savages" Also Hanno:"so I flayed their skin off"

@topkek996

11 ай бұрын

As one does

@mrtrollnator123

11 ай бұрын

He was not messing around 💀

@lhaviland8602

10 ай бұрын

"So anyway I started blasting"

@fulviopontarollo2952

8 ай бұрын

Hanno the Navigator: “wow those people were some mighty savages huh” The interpreters: “those are Gorillas, mate” Hanno: “ah so that is the name of that savage people, interesting!” The interpreters: “……….”

@melonjuice7441

7 ай бұрын

Def didnt eat them either

Funny how distant lands always seem to have more gold than the lands of the writers.

@kokoeteantigha389

11 ай бұрын

Grass always greener across the street kind of thing, don't you think?

@albertfcb6654

11 ай бұрын

@@kokoeteantigha389 evolution, makes u explore

@himhim3344

11 ай бұрын

Simply laying the groundworks for the justification of future wars.

@himhim3344

11 ай бұрын

@@albertfcb6654 🙄🙄

@Reg_The_Galah

11 ай бұрын

@@albertfcb6654evolution is poo and you know it

Love how three of them were "Ancients misinterpreting stuff again." and China was just "HERE IS A DETAILED LIST OF THEIR GOVERMENTAL STRUCTURE, FLORA, FAUNA, ECONOMY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY. WE GIVE THEM A SCORE OF *STILL BELOW CHINA* " and Rome is just "Meh, nice silk and nature, that's about it."

@saltrocklamp199

9 ай бұрын

I found it interesting that apparently the Romans harvested silk at the time they were visited by the Chinese traveler, but apparently no longer did so by the time the Roman traveler went to China, because he thought it came directly from the trees and seemed unfamiliar with the whole idea.

@saltrocklamp199

9 ай бұрын

Never mind, I'm reading in the other comments that the Romans did not in fact have any knowledge of silk production, they just got it from places other than China, and the Chinese traveler mistook it as their own product.

@Daiyuki117

9 ай бұрын

The Chinese were listing out the resources they could potentially take that's all.

@redeye4516

6 ай бұрын

What's funnier is that the Chinese also believed the Romans to be a lost Chinese kingdom to the far west. Why? Well they're so advanced, only the Chinese could become so advanced, everyone who isn't Chinese are club-dragging morons living in caves. But they're specifically called "Little China", because obviously China is larger, older, and thus superior in every way to these lost Chinese.

@arthas640

5 ай бұрын

​@@saltrocklamp199the Roman's had a silk production industry but it was the byzantines. The silk worms got brought over by Christian monks. Continued at least until the ottoman conquest

imagine not knowing what a gorilla is and seeing one for the first time. Must've been wild

@pythag123

11 ай бұрын

Same with thinking they are like people, and trying to kidnap them, just to kill them because it was too much hassle =|

@saudielbamber4227

11 ай бұрын

There was a report of men with faces in their chest. And are vicious lol. Sounds like gorillas or other apes

@ConstantineJoseph

11 ай бұрын

They should establish diplomatic and trade ties with them. Starting off with the banana trade

@steven_003

11 ай бұрын

The mighty tribe of the Gorilli.

@nocomments5029

11 ай бұрын

@@saudielbamber4227 ignorance is bliss

"here is all this weird fantastic stuff from India, Arabia, and Africa. definitely exists, trust me bro." "I can't confirm that Britain exists. I mean seriously, an island were people mine tin....I'm gonna need some more evidence for that one."

@Xxsnipedawg72xX

11 ай бұрын

Honestly still can't prove it exists and I just got out of the tin mine

@rainvast8982

10 ай бұрын

Wait Britain is real !?

@Liethen

10 ай бұрын

@@rainvast8982 6 out of 10 experts agree

@Xxsnipedawg72xX

10 ай бұрын

@@rainvast8982 hey man, you put those words in my mouth, I said tin mine

@sword4005

10 ай бұрын

Britain museum:, good if they doubt we exist they cant ask for their things back

That description of China as "forever unacquainted with arms and warfare" and "troublesome to none of their neighbors" really got me.

@Morgan_of_the_Maxilla

10 ай бұрын

Empires typically think other empires do nothing wrong unless they come into conflict with them over who they oppress

@TheHalflingLad

10 ай бұрын

@@Morgan_of_the_Maxilla Good point. I wish we could clarify the author's definition of "neighbor" and "troublesome".

@darko714

10 ай бұрын

Just don’t ask.the Uighurs.

@yaelz6043

10 ай бұрын

What really got me is some imperialist lad who's empire has invaded the entire world making up lies about China invading people.

@jirojhasuo2ndgrandcompany745

10 ай бұрын

@@darko714 the uighur narrative is now thrown into the trash bin by the CIA. get new material

A recurring theme to these accounts: "There's totally GOLD there, bro, trust me."

@sailoroftheinternet3290

10 ай бұрын

great way to get funding / support for the next expodition i guess

@ArthurTheLibraryDetective

10 ай бұрын

😂..yep..😎

Explanations on Chinese names for those civilizations: (Rome) 大秦 Daqin: literally "Great Qin", the most common hypothesis being that Chinese believed Rome rivaled them in civilization, so they called the Romans Great Qin, or Great China. Another less common hypothesis being that it's a phonetic reading of Latium (La > Da, Ti > Qin), but corrupted through the telephone game along the Silk Road. (Babylon) 條枝 Tiaozhi: phonetic reading of Tigris, corrupted through the game of telephone along the Silk Road. (Parthia) 安息 Anxi: phonetic reading of Arsacid, the name of the Parthian dynasty. (Egypt) 埃及 Aiji: also the modern Chinese name for Egypt today, phonetic reading of Egypt.

@The_ZeroLine

7 ай бұрын

Good details and explanations. Thanks.

@frankhill4358

6 күн бұрын

Stop degrading yourself to flatter white people Da Qin given to Rome meant that despite Rome’s greatness they still saw it as beneath them. After all, saying “oh hey you’re just like me” to a competitor is more of an insult.

Fascinating how Herodotus mentions the British Isles, the "Tin Islands," only in passing; known to him more by _what_ is extracted there than by _who_ lives there.

@TheWildManEnkidu

11 ай бұрын

Tin is needed to make bronze, so the Greeks had likely been in distant contact with the Isles for a long time in a tangential way. Trade with the Etruscans, who themselves ventured deeply into central and northern Europe might have brought them some knowledge of it too, as well as the Phoenicians who had somewhat of a monopoly on Celtic trade in ores. Though we can never really be sure.

@yakobi8434

11 ай бұрын

And it’s fucking wild that the British did the same damn thing with the Spice Islands and other colonies, like father like son ig

@KingNoTail

11 ай бұрын

​@@yakobi8434That's how ALL people were back then. Especially the Islamic Caliphate.

@yakobi8434

11 ай бұрын

@@KingNoTail Lmao, I know, don’t really need to use that defence, was just pointing out those little synchronicities in history

@1001011011010

11 ай бұрын

I mean what would you have preferred he called it, "the island of pale people"??

The Chinese on the Romans / Roman on Chinese (from similar eras: 240 vs 380) was enlightening. The Romans had a "slight" understanding on silk production (but knew not of the silk worms), where the Chinese had rather "better" geographic data, the "writer" had assumed we had our own silk worms and silk production ability, if of lower quality (when we had no silk worms or even understanding thats how silk was made)

@merseyviking

11 ай бұрын

So the Romans were sold inferior silk, and the Chinese kept the best for themselves.

@EricBarbman

11 ай бұрын

@@merseyviking Yes Rome had no silk. They bought it from Persia and India, which bot got it from China... What might have surprised a Chinese visitor could be the colours and dyes of the Roman textiles and silk products, that could have been very unusual for him, leading him to think they had an indigenous silk industry. The introduction of the first silk worms in Italy dates from the XIVth century, when a Florentine spy managed to get some from Constantinople, alongside the big, big secret : what the worms fed on -> mulberry leaves.

@asgautbakke8687

10 ай бұрын

When the chinese author assumes is "roman silk" is most probably coan floss, which was luxury textile produced by another moth. Byzantizes smuggled in silk worms to found a silk instrustry of their own. Coan floss had a small market still an couple hundred years more, coan floss would be mostly similiar ultra-thin textile like musselin.

@SeanHiruki

10 ай бұрын

Didn’t help that time Huan’s account was written the most prosperous dynasty, The Han, had fallen and the country was deep into a fierce civil war known as the Three Kingdoms Era. Definitely wanted to keep all the silk they could for themselves at the time.

@shinsenshogun900

10 ай бұрын

@@SeanHiruki Most would give away an entire storage of sacks of coins and bolts of silks for themselves. Liu Bei, the supposedly surviving Han prince and the First Lord Sovereign of Shu-Han, gave such plunder away to his newly acquired resident subjects.

I liked the sheep with the little carts.

The ancient world was much more connected then we think, but at the same time, so much was unknown or unsure and it mustve felt so mysterious comig across these nations, their people and their wildlife for the first time. I wonder how many details of fantastical creatures were made to make these lands seem more mystical and exciting, since it was assumed nobody could prove it wrong lol.

@elgoog7830

11 ай бұрын

On the other hand, I'm certain there were plenty of accounts written, where the writer wanted to accurately document what they were seeing and experiencing. Not saying liars didn't exist, I think it's more abundant these days, and more of a modern sickness, than ever before. Lying is spiraling out of control.

@andrewpresley8676

10 ай бұрын

⁠@@elgoog7830Lying? I don’t completely disagree, but I would’ve used the word Hysteria is more out of control these days.

@backyardr.c.6280

10 ай бұрын

Than*

@devvv4616

10 ай бұрын

Sailors and merchants probably lying alot for shits and giggles loll. Or to make it seen like their products were very hard to get

@lordrichardson4447

10 ай бұрын

@@elgoog7830 agreed. We must at least consider that some of these ancient accounts may be actually what these people were seeing After all. their are plenty of species that we know went extinct... whose to say their are not species that went extinct that we just havent found or heard of

Imagine if we were these ancient people and heard this story of an exotic distant lands with exotic beasts and peoples. It's like a future equivalent of founding the alien civilization in the other star system, with its own culture, values, religion, and way of life. I love this kind of story.

@rattled1557

10 ай бұрын

born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the galaxy

@Sognafar

4 ай бұрын

​​​@@rattled1557born just in time to explore Skyrim 3000+ times

I'd heard that the Chinese person who wrote about Rome only went as far as the Middle East and then wrote about the rest of Rome from books.

@jimmyohara2601

11 ай бұрын

Likely a lot from hearsay too 🤔

@kb.e3762

11 ай бұрын

he must've gone to the edges of the eastern roman empire and i read somewhere that he was stopped by the iranians

@SeanHiruki

10 ай бұрын

To be fair to him he was told it would take months by sea to get to Italy and China was in the middle of a decades long civil war so he had to get back soon

@mbern4530

10 ай бұрын

Some say Marco Polo did the same when he wrote about China. That he only made it to the middle east or India and just wrote down stories he heard.

@crimsonbt3059

10 ай бұрын

@@mbern4530the Chinese writer didn’t say he went there tho, Marco Polo writes of a meeting with the Khan

Being British, it feels so strange for Herodotus to talk about northern Europe, Greece now considered a part of Europe, with such uncertainty. It feels even stranger, being British, when he doubts our very existence (as Britain is certainly what "Tin Islands" refers to). Very strange indeed.

@umnovomundo3738

11 ай бұрын

i was looking at the comments to see if someone already said that the "tin islands" is Britain

@greatexpectations6577

11 ай бұрын

Are you one eyed by chance? 😅

@abyrupus

11 ай бұрын

Northern Europe was beyond the Alps mountains. The average early Greek would have familiarity with Turkey, Egypt, Italy or Armenia, with stronger trade and cultural ties. To them, northern europe was an exotic foreign land far away and yet unexplored. Just how British, French, Spanish etc. spoke of other parts of the world in later colonial era, and people often doubted the existence of places in Africa, Oceania, India or Americas or considered the people exotic. And many merchants created hoaxes or spoke lies about countries teeming with gold and diamonds and no one knew things for certain.

@Hundredyacrewoods

11 ай бұрын

@@greatexpectations6577 not to my knowledge. 😉 But then Herodotus didn't believe it either.

@tommeakin1732

11 ай бұрын

The bit that I find it strange is how that's contrasted with his awareness of other far away places. History unfurls is surprising ways

The continuity of the culture of the ancient Prussians is so fascinating. From a Suebi scout telling Caesar that the Aestii live on the far side of the hercynian forest trading amber for metals, to polish dukes 1300 years later having their invasions thwarted by complex ambushed from swamps and glades by men with strange plate armor. I wish we could know more about the Prusai. There is a gap in knowledge of them that extends so far.

@oumuamua1602

10 ай бұрын

Had no idea about this, going to look further into it! Interesting how they were attested to in Roman times, just with a different name.

@tylerdurden3722

9 ай бұрын

Theodorus the Great wrote back to the Aesti once (around 500AD). _ It is gratifying to us to know that you have heard of our fame, and have sent ambassadors who have passed through so many strange nations to seek our friendship. We have received the amber which you have sent us. You say that you gather this lightest of all substances from the shores of ocean, but how it comes thither you know not. But as an author named Cornelius (Tacitus) informs us, it is gathered in the innermost islands of the ocean, being formed originally of the juice of a tree (whence its name succinum), and gradually hardened by the heat of the sun. Thus it becomes an exuded metal, a transparent softness, sometimes blushing with the color of saffron, sometimes glowing with flame-like clearness. Then, gliding down to the margin of sea, and further purified by the rolling of the tides, it is at length transported to your shores to be cast upon them. We have thought it better to point this out to you, lest you should imagine that your supposed secrets have escaped our knowledge. We sent you some presents by our ambassadors, and shall be glad to receive further visits from you by the road which you have thus opened up, and to show you future favors. _

@Shmethan

8 ай бұрын

​@@tylerdurden3722haha I love how he spends most of the message giving a science lesson. Slightly wholesome and slightly patronizing. But also always cool hearing how the ancients viewed stuff like that

The idea that there's a breed of long-tailed sheep who's tails are only preserved by canny carpenter-shepherds who build tail-trailers for said sheep is the greatest "shit the ancients believed" fact I never knew I needed to know

@simonl.6338

11 ай бұрын

I think it's an exaggerated account of fat tailed sheep

@IOmoon6221

11 ай бұрын

Out of all the things in this video, I wish this one was true.

@jonhall2274

11 ай бұрын

Yet the "fox sized ants that brought gold" is more believable?!?😆

@omnomnom11122

11 ай бұрын

YO. Do your research; this is referring to fat-tailed sheep, which are exactly as depicted and would have been treated as described. They're real.

@tommeakin1732

11 ай бұрын

@@omnomnom11122 I fully admit my ignorance that fat-tailed sheep were even a thing (apparently they even make up 25% of the global sheep population). The context of the video (containing fantastical and false things), combined with my ignorance on sheep (I have several weird interests, but sheep isn't one of them), and how ridiculous the idea of a tail-trailer is to my brain, made me assume it to be bullshit. Is there any evidence at all that it's ever been a cultural practice to make tail-trailers for them lol? I read that, in the middle east, the tails may have been able to grown longer than most modern examples of fat-tailed sheep (who seem to almost always have very stumpy tails) apparently because modern tails are interfered with because the sheep are typically used for wool production and the long tail gets covered in sh*t, but even then, it seems like such a ridiculous proposition that someone was making trailers for sheep so they can carry their own tails lol. It might be real, but my god it does not sound real ^^ Edit: I should say that I just closed google images after ending this comment and realised that I look like a total freak now. Just a long page of dumb-truck sheep butts. That'd be a weird one to explain to someone.

I can’t even imagine, such a world. How incredible these recounts of their world are. Intriguing and could listen to these all day long❤

@fillfinish7302

11 ай бұрын

Full of mysteries and hardships .yet mu h more exciting.

The "Island of tin" Herodotus refers to was England. Tin was mined in Cornwall and supplied Europe with it during the bronze age.

@mrtrollnator123

11 ай бұрын

Interesting

@frusciantesplectrum7980

10 ай бұрын

Doubt that very much only thing that was made out of tin was/is Biscuit tins. And bourbons are now made in plastic wrapping so you look a bit daft there.

@andrefasching1332

10 ай бұрын

​@@frusciantesplectrum7980ah yes. because now stuff is made out of plastic, that place just cant have produced tin five thousand years ago.

@ExotickDesigns

10 ай бұрын

@@frusciantesplectrum7980 know, there’s this really interesting thing called ‘Bronze’. It’s an alloy of Copper, and that oh so special ‘Tin’. But there’s noooo way they would import Tin to other parts of the world to make Bronze, right? Especially during the ‘Bronze Age’. 💀

@brianlara6451

10 ай бұрын

Spain also had tin mines. But the travel to England was necessary because the tin miners in the Taurus mountains were had a monopoly.

I like to imagine that each of these accounts are all real, and things have just changed that much throughout history.

@vroomkaboom108

11 ай бұрын

YES, THANK YOU

Funny how the Chinese thought the Romans also made silk from sillworms, while the Romans didn't even know about the worms and thought the Chinese silk came directly from trees

@charsta2072

5 ай бұрын

How did they make silk if not worm

Love Tacitus describing nomadic people’s just being totally chill and content to not want any fucking thing to do with civilization or agriculture.

@kellydalstok8900

10 ай бұрын

No greed and no religion to f*ck things up. Only working until you have enough to eat and taking the rest of the day off.

What incredible times to be alive. So much mystery in the world. Landing in other countries mustve been like going to mars.

@ClickClack_Bam

10 ай бұрын

Go look at people who go into caves & explore. It's literally going back in time in more ways than 1. The caves were there before humanity existed & those same caves were ones that early mankind entered. Imagine walking into the same "home" that cavemen lived in all those centuries ago. The caves themselves look like other planets. You can see how the myths about caves going to hell etc came about. No 2 caves are alike & they can really look crazy AF! Channel "Adventure Twins" is a good start. Then there's underwater caves which is a whole other thing.

@julies3837

10 ай бұрын

Except you can actually breath there and then potentially go home safely unlike Mars.

@kd4n347

10 ай бұрын

More interesting than mars tbh there's nothing much there

Interesting how now Africa was heavily wooded and many wild animals lived in Europe that are now elsewhere or extinct.

Gorillas: OOOO OOOO Hanno: "Look at these very hairy men."

@WorthlessWinner

11 ай бұрын

Thinks they're people Kills and flays the women, brings their skin home WTF?!

@gheddafiduck8239

11 ай бұрын

@@WorthlessWinnerit’s not so strange for his time

The "abundance of gold" and "tin islands" in Northern Europe are very clearly the British isles, archeology suggests north Africa traded pottery for tin and gold. Its why the Romans conquered the British isles to gain access to gold and tin

@shinsenshogun900

10 ай бұрын

Except they could only gain much as far as the Lothian lowlands, but had settled behind the sparsely colonized area behind the Antonine and colonized what is kept behind the Hadrian Walls. They would turn out to be poorly economical provinces for the Roman Empire, with a lot of treacherous and opportune emperors born and made to the ranks from serving in the British Roman Legions

"So, how did your trip go?" "Pretty good" "Make any interesting new friends?" "Eh, not really. We did find some really strange people though, they weren't like us at all." "I bet that made establishing relations difficult." "IMPOSSIBLE. They *really* weren't like us at all." "Oh really?" "Yeah, they were short and hairy and totally naked." "But you looked past your differences and still tried to make friends?" "At first, but they kept running away so we kidnapped 3 of them." "Oh are they here now? Can I see them? I'd like to meet these strange people you found, can I meet them?" "Well... they turned out to not be so friendly" "As people tend to be when you kidnapp them, yes" "...right, so we *skinned them"* "..."

Love the political parallels between Roman’s interacting with the Fenni people and their arguments against “civilization” and Europeans interacting with the peoples of the Eastern Woodlands like Kandiaronk are striking! Very similar propoganda with very similar arguments

@DandyDude

11 ай бұрын

Uncle Ted warned us. Vote by mail(?)

@SiriusSphynx

11 ай бұрын

Surprise, surprise, people are always the same from everywhere.

I love this channel so much, the whole team is so talented. Top tier content, every single time.

"Gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, tortoises..." made me laugh for like two minutes straight

@rebekahlikesmusic2723

9 ай бұрын

😂 🐢

@KD400_

9 ай бұрын

Of course women focusing on the delivery rather than the actual topic lol

@Meuracas

9 ай бұрын

@@KD400_oh look, an edgy MMA fan whose mommy did not give him enough attention growing up…live and let live, son. :)

@KD400_

9 ай бұрын

@@Meuracas what's mma got to do with this lol

@Meuracas

9 ай бұрын

@@KD400_ Nothing, just like the original post had nothing to do with the delivery and just like the frustration behind your comment has nothing to do with the original post ;)

Herodotus be like "Dog-headed men? Obviously its true! One-eyed men? Out of the question!"

@OrphicPolytheist

10 ай бұрын

They used to call baboons "dog headed people".

@awinchester9094

10 ай бұрын

One eye men were the blacksmiths ? They would wear eye patch over one eye to keep one eye adjusted to dark. They stepped outside the forge and would look nasty black and with one eye. Lol

I love these sorts of videos. Being an explorer back then must've been a wild experience. Nowadays, I guess our closest parallels are stories of uncontacted native peoples in jungles or possible alien civilizations out in the cosmos. Thank you for another fantastic video! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

@jimmyohara2601

11 ай бұрын

Hardly any UNcontacted people remain worldwide. The very few remaining are of Andaman Islands group (of India) & a few Amazon Jungle tribes of Brazil. 😐

@crabbyalthegrump641

11 ай бұрын

Just put on a pair of shoes and start walking around the world, from city to city to city, talk to every beggar, every bum at a bus stop, every kid at a skate park, every cop thats bored and patient enough. Get yourself put in jail or a mental hospital, talk to all the patients, all the inmates, all the guards and doctors ... Ask all these people about their lives, deeply, find out if they were teased as a kid, when they first saw something die, what their power animal is ... After a while, you will have explored and know more about the world than any geographer, anthropologist, and historians combined ... There is still lots to explore, much to share, much to learn and we need pioneers more than ever.

@SToNeOwNz

11 ай бұрын

@@jimmyohara2601 Their are also tribes on some Indonesian islands of interior region because they hunt men.

@nateuwotm8544

11 ай бұрын

The oceans.

@albertfcb6654

11 ай бұрын

@@jimmyohara2601 however, the wonders of the univerese and phsics are just as entertaining, not?

Adventure is dead. These men were lucky to have experienced the magic of exploring the unknown.

@gheddafiduck8239

11 ай бұрын

We need to go to space

@danf7411

11 ай бұрын

What? Speaking from an American perspective their are many peaks and rugged places no human has ever made it too. Even in our most populous state. Many many places in the world no one has bothered to venture into. Just cause you can't sail into the void and find new continents and islands doesn't mean you can't explore the unknown

@mrtrollnator123

11 ай бұрын

Bro there's still a lot to explore

@albertfcb6654

11 ай бұрын

physics, universe ... the world is more interesting thAn ever

@landonburdette3907

10 ай бұрын

You wanna go to Afghanistan? I'll blow your mind dude.

Whenever on a plane or high up on a hill, I look out at the landscape and am captivated by what it must have been like during a time before modern locomotion, where traveling more than a few tens of miles was an daunting task, let alone trying to comprehend a land and its people half way across the world.

I love the element of mystery that comes with these accounts. The world was unimaginably vast for them and mostly unknown. The modern world is so thoroughly mapped and recorded, the only equivalent we'd have would be space.

@JMB_focus

10 ай бұрын

Their account is based on facts

@willbentley8856

10 ай бұрын

@@JMB_focus not saying it wasnt?

@psychopompous3207

10 ай бұрын

At 2nd place, the Oceans.

@user-pg7cx9wo1m

Ай бұрын

The complete modern world is NOT mapped completely, Admiral Byrd said that there's land past Antarctica, large as America, never touched by humans.

Interesting that Tacitus in 98AD already knows that amber is petrified sap.

@kellydalstok8900

10 ай бұрын

Possibly the inhabitants around the Baltic Sea knew it too, but a Roman can’t admit to “savages” being (almost) as advanced as them.

So interesting how Herodotus’ account is the most open minded yet the earliest. The ancient Greeks really had rationality figured out.

@bun197

11 ай бұрын

true, because like rationalists he lied constantly and called it logical deduction

@psychopompous3207

10 ай бұрын

Wait until you read how rational their myths are...

@frankfrankfrankfrankfrank

10 ай бұрын

Hanno's account seems to me the most open minded. Herodotus' was full of fairy tales

@melodicbanshee4344

10 ай бұрын

I like how much he admired the civilizations he came across

Sitones are Suiones (Swedes) from Sigtuna, an old name for what today is Stockholm county. Fenni means "finder", it's a germanic exonym for (Finno-Uralic) hunter-gatherers.

➡️ Chinese historical notations are unparalleled in their detail and accuracy.

You were able to hear the sun rising! Fantastic imagery

I love this series on ancient accounts, thank you for keeping at it.

It seems Hanno the navigator first encountered a volcanic eruption than a group of great apes (chimpanzee or gorilla) in the west of Africa.

I think the 6th strangest account of the edge of the world comes from my flat earther grandpa when he was in the korean war. He swears that his plane left from a base in California and used new technology to make the trip across the whole world eastward shorter than anyone would think possible. And before he got off the plane onto land he swears he could see the edge of the world where the waters flowed straight down into the abyss. I just think they medicated him with something a little too strong to combat his wild anxiety about flying.

@mr.gamewatch7547

10 ай бұрын

Flat-earthers don't believe in an "edge". They believe there is a dome (firmamament) that encloses the flat earth

@mr.gamewatch7547

9 ай бұрын

@@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl What? I'm just stating the general flat earth theory. 90% of the time people strawmen their arguments

@shellydesormier4646

6 ай бұрын

Jeez I hope he wasn’t the pilot.... ☮️🍁🍂

@user-pg7cx9wo1m

Ай бұрын

Was he in Special Forces or anything???

1:32 The average Pigmy is 4’11” so their head would reach to the shoulder of the average west African and their eyes to the average man’s chest Anyone else think that “headless man” was a miscommunication talking about the still existing pigmy tribes? Maybe they wore huge helmets to war x)?

@jonhall2274

11 ай бұрын

That's actually a good possible theory on that particular description, as I was confused, and like the "1 eyed race", or " fox sized ANTS that brought gold up" were just fairytales! 🤔🙃

Brilliant - I love the ancient style artwork! A very skilful production 🙂

Herodotus was high on some powerful shit lol

@iratepirate3896

11 ай бұрын

It's called Chinese whispers... or I guess 'Median whispers'

Tacitus' take on where amber comes from is surprisingly close to the truth. But of course he can't help but dunk on the barbarians.

Fantastic video! It's crazy how much time has passed. These historians wondering what exists around them, now today I can go on Twitch & KZread and go to pretty much any major country talked about here live, use a voice to text app, then run it through translation and understand what they are talking about. It almost feels like we are a completely different species with magic at our finger tips.

What a great production. I just went down an asbestos cloth rabbit hole thanks to Yu Huan and learned something completely new today so...thanks.

The concept of providing historical context through the viewpoint of those that actually witnessed the events is exactly the kind of content armchair historians (such as myself) need most right now, in my personal opinion. It gets tiring constantly listening to misinformed, biased opinions that have been reiterated and regurgitated to death over dozens of generations and told by those who generally sparked the conflict to begin with. By receiving the information firsthand (or at least as close as we're likely to get), we're able to form our own opinions and develop our own understanding of our collective world history. What you're doing is important (not that anyone needs me to tell them that) and I thank you for it.

These accounts of crazy beasts were true to the people of the time. They believed these things were actually there. Imagine traveling and worrying about some of these creatures

@AwakenedAvocado

11 ай бұрын

Gigantism goes bigger the further you go back

@kellydalstok8900

10 ай бұрын

@@AwakenedAvocadomuch further back than a couple of millennia though. More like tens of thousands of years. Before literacy.

I have heard Hanno's account before and I always pause at the mention of them hunting gorillas. It's bad enough they just up and killed three cool animals for no reason, but they also sincerely thought them to be humans, which makes it... a lot worse?

@xxmirchinxx

11 ай бұрын

yeh that bothered me too - not a good look

@mrtrollnator123

11 ай бұрын

Tbf their body shapes from a distance do resemble us a bit and it's the first recorded encounter with apes so...

@Kcaedenn

11 ай бұрын

I don’t think they were gorillas? Female gorillas would beat the shit out of anyone trying to carry them back to the ship. Also aren’t females like 300-400 pounds? Maybe they were chimpanzees

@bun197

11 ай бұрын

morality is not consistent through history

@mrtrollnator123

11 ай бұрын

@@bun197 exactly

I have ALWAYS been fascinated by Carthage. It always saddens me, their end, and I would love to know even more about the 1st explorers of the waters around Africa! That's the REAL beginning of the European explorer timeframe! I mean, they could have been sailing off the map, for all they knew! It's also pretty amazing that humans sailed, somehow, through many of the south east Asian islands, to Australia, 60,000 years ago! Or that the Bering land bridge was crossed, or hugged the icy coast, if that's how you believe people came to the Americas.

@mahatmamartinus

Ай бұрын

Carthago delenda est, chad Cato

The part about Scandinavia is interesting.

@More_Row

11 ай бұрын

I like how the only thing he had to say about the non swedes were that they were ruled by a woman.

@gsejapan

11 ай бұрын

@@More_Row And that it made them lower than slaves. The times have changed

@user-cg2tw8pw7j

11 ай бұрын

​@@gsejapanVikings: What women are less than men is nonsense

@user-cg2tw8pw7j

10 ай бұрын

@@JL3Wind You mean southern Ukraine, Russia, Iran and Central Asia

@kellydalstok8900

10 ай бұрын

@@user-cg2tw8pw7jIt says a lot about a man’s insecurities that they see women as lesser. Men who are comfortable in their own skin make no distinction between men and women’s intelligence and abilities, because there is none.

The Carthaginians were surprisingly organized and fair at their account. It makes me sad that this is the only piece of surviving literature from them. I love the romans, but they can be fiercely cruel when they want

@hwak6501

10 ай бұрын

I wouldve wished that someone in that time wouldve ventured further, and perhaps circumnavigated Africa. Imagine how the world would react to know that Africa is in fact not an endless landmass

@evanwilliams3645

10 ай бұрын

@@hwak6501I would imagine somewhere off the coast of east Africa there to be a lone shipwreck or more from those that did but never returned to tell the tale. Always been the adventurous types that go to far. The story of Icarus was a warning story for a reason I’m sure

@PortmanRd

10 ай бұрын

The amount of times Hannibal had the chance to put the final nail in Rome's coffin, but each time either underestimated them, or totally screwed it up. Then unfortunately for him he met his nemesis, and equal by the name of Scipio Africanus.

@DefinitelyNotEmma

10 ай бұрын

Carthago delenda est

@moozillamoo2109

10 ай бұрын

@@PortmanRd He didn't have siege engines and thus, could not crack Roman walls. Italians mostly stayed loyal to the Romans.

This is the absolute best youtube got to offer for history nerds!

That 2nd story is interesting, because in Google earth terrain view, Mt Brandberg Marsi Berg reserve in Namibia, looks like it may be a volcano & just to the SE at Bakkrans Historic site is what look like what may have been a circular lake (now dry) with an island in the middle. as described. Also, in Google Earth satellite view, the island of Bela Vista appears to be a collapsed volcanic cone with the outer rim under the sea. So if the report was from a time of lower sea level where the outer rim remained exposed, the island would indeed have been an enclosed lake within the older collapsed rim while the newer small cone would be a mountain at the NE end of the island. In the Yu Huan story, what is it with Asia's narrative confusion over east & west directions? their description of these directions are most confusing & seemingly contradictory to western ears. I guess they must have a way of expressing this that is consistent to them, but it just doesn't translate well for westerners. I am a retired cartographer & we constantly had this same issue with Asian cartographic staff. I never did figure it out & it drove me crazy that we could never rely on their directional descriptions. It's still a complete mystery to me.

@weirdofromhalo

10 ай бұрын

Traditional Chinese maps used south as the "up" direction, so saying you were going left meant going east and vice versa.

This was fascinating, thanks for sharing! I love accounts like these. The stuff on gorillaz or chimpanzees reminds me of medieval drawings. What people thought elephants looked like. I wouldn't be surprised if the idea for snuffleupagus came from one of those drawings. The ideas that must have come from people just hearing about some of these creatures is truly amazing.

@melissamartinez3593

10 ай бұрын

Isn’t snuffleopaugus a mammoth ? Lol

It's interesting to see that these people, with their narrow scopes of the world and knowledge, still knew when to draw the line between what they saw as fact or myth, saying "I don't know" or "I haven't been able to authenticate" some claims they list. It's a degree of humble-ness that I thought was reserved for the times during and after the industrial revolution

Beautifully wrought, thank you!!

My favorite thing is where the writers draw the line in believing something.

Thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you!

Fantastic as usual!

“Their men were savages! So we kidnapped, slaughtered and skinned their women.”

@twilso12

10 ай бұрын

@@jge123 lol yeah, “the good ole days” 🤤

@pusaywolfgacha9912

10 ай бұрын

They were talking about gorillas you mong

@einfacheiner1659

12 күн бұрын

Haha I was shocked the way he said it like it was completely normal, it must have been weird even for his time.

When Herodatus says he doesn't believe your tale... 😂

@JMB_focus

10 ай бұрын

A white comment

Amazing video. What a greatly interesting perspective.

"Why's it called the lixus ?" *gets licked by the water* Meets the lixitas.... "whose ass ?"

18:15 as a redhead i'm somewhat honored that I be listed as a noteworthy substance found in a faraway land

@CarlCoppinger

23 күн бұрын

Your cute!!!!!☺️

always enjoy your work

Keep up the amazing work

It's really interesting to see these ancient people's admittedly _do_ have moments when they just admit that they don't know, unsure or don't believe all the things they've heard of far away lands. I feel like a lot of teachings today lead us to believe that ancient people had something of a bit of an ego, or were extremely gullible to what they'd hear about far away places relative to themselves. So to hear an ancient person admit, "I don't really believe these tales" and "I haven't been able to authenticate....", it's very refreshing

what a world it must’ve been

Very interesting video, its cool to see what people thought of unknown places and what they had snd their civilization

The amount of brain power and thinking behind the part on Amber was crazy

@kellydalstok8900

10 ай бұрын

OR he heard it from those Baltic people, but he just wanted to keep pretending they were no more than savages, because that’s what “civilized” people do.

Tremendous video!

I have a question. In the first part Herodotus mentions the burning of Storax. What is that?

Awesome. I love this channel. I love historical journeys description of the land and people before the 19th century. I would like to listen more about Germania/Germany from any explorer. Roman, Greece, japan, Indian, native Americans or from any other people.

10:44 "They are more patient at cultivating Corn" Correct me if im wrong but Corn shouldn't have been a thing Tacitus was aware of right? I thought Corn was a vegetable indigenous to the Americas which is discovered later in European history.

@vivienj9072

10 ай бұрын

Corn is a generic word for grain. What we call corn in America is more specifically "maize"

@cfealzy

5 ай бұрын

It holds different meaning

"We took three women who bit and scratched their leaders and would not follow them, so we killed them and flayed them and brought their skins to Carthage." That took a left turn.

@mahatmamartinus

Ай бұрын

Carthago delenda est, chad Cato

Not the weirdest thing Herodotus wrote about India and its tribes, or the ethiopians...

@SiriusSphynx

11 ай бұрын

An ancient opinion is still an opinion

@rudiruttger

11 ай бұрын

@@SiriusSphynx ???

@SirAntoniousBlock

11 ай бұрын

@@rudiruttger He's probably from the post Trump alternative truth generation where opinion means the same thing as fact.

@vorynrosethorn903

11 ай бұрын

That less a generation thing than it is post-modernism.

@davidsenra2495

11 ай бұрын

@@vorynrosethorn903 Post-modernism has some wacky shit in it, but at least it advocates for critical thinking. Trumpism and those savage lunatics on the far-right, on the other hand... Well, suffice it to say they are basically adults who believe in fairy tales.

Great compilation again

Quite interesting, thanks for this vid!

How incredible these recounts of their world are.😀

These charming tall tales are great.

These are so fascinating!

i think its very funny how herodotus without question believes stories of giant ants that carry gold and men with faces on their chests but suddenly becomes a skeptic when he hears a very plausible idea of an island existing somewhere

Hanno should have bought eyeglasses. He though gorillas were people.

@monkeymoment6478

11 ай бұрын

The famous tribes of Gorilly

@Renderc4t

11 ай бұрын

Well when you're expecting people with eyes in their chests a Gorilla isn't too unusual.

@fillfinish7302

11 ай бұрын

Imagine seeing gorillas for the first time .

@JudgeEomer

11 ай бұрын

We don't know for sure if they were gorillas. Our word gorilla derives from this account of his voyage! It does seem most likely they were apes rather than humans, though.

@iratepirate3896

11 ай бұрын

I think we named gorillas after these people

Always a treat when you post

Very interesting channel, thank you.

This was very informative and interesting because I luv history. Thanks for your indept research.

Stuff like this is so interesting to me

China about Rome: No thieves! Rome about China: No wars! This is hilarious.

This was so interesting. I love content like this

Oh god. The "little cars" for the sheep killed me.

im still convinced hanno fought gorillas

@gheddafiduck8239

11 ай бұрын

I already knew that story, he literally did they thought gorillas were some strange kind of people

@JanoTuotanto

11 ай бұрын

Word gorilla comes from Hanno

@mrtrollnator123

11 ай бұрын

​@@JanoTuotantointeresting I thought it came from the romans

I don't think Herodotus was saying the trees were guarded by "winged" serpents, I'd go with flying or fleet or fast, probably a viper.

This is my favorite channel on KZread